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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Ajit Niranjan

World ill-prepared to stop climate crisis reversing progress on health, says study

A woman shades herself from the sun as she tries to keep cool along the Brooklyn Bridge in New York during a heatwave in July 2023.
The report found just 0.2% of the loans and grants given to climate adaptation projects went to schemes that identified health as the primary focus. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The climate crisis threatens to roll back decades of progress towards better health and governments are ill-prepared to stop it, the World Meteorological Organization has said.

Three-quarters of national weather agencies send climate data to their country’s health officials but less than one in four health ministries use the information to protect people from risks such as extreme heat, the report found.

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